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Scary Movie [VHS]
 
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Scary Movie [VHS]

 Suitable for 18 years and over   VHS Tape
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
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  • Language English
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Buena Vista
  • VHS Release Date: 2 July 2001
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000059H5J
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,240 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

In Scary Movie we visit BA Corpse High School, where all the pupils are visibly in their late 20s and a masked madman (or two) is on the loose, slaughtering self-involved, pop-culture-obsessed kids while trying to get to virginal heroine Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris). The gang are still guilt-ridden over their semi-accidental killing of a fisherman last Halloween, while at least one has been driven homicidally mad by the cancellation of the Wayans Brothers television show. An old vaudeville motto has it that you can't kid a kidder, and the makers of this would have done well to remember MAD Magazine didn't run a satire of Airplane!. The obvious flaw in the canny plan to satirise Wes Craven's Scream films is that they were already comedies, playing as many self-referential tricks as anything from the Naked Gun team but with the added bonus of actual scary scenes. The joke about ageing starlets pretending to be high school kids was done in Scream 3, for instance, and Scary Movie keeps sending up scenes that were funnier "straight" and only really gets a good satirical victim when it turns to the somewhat sillier I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise. Director Keenen Ivory Wayans and his writing-acting brothers Marlon and Shawn show no real interest in the genre they're taking pot-shots at, suggesting that the point here was to lampoon something hot rather than (as in the best spoofs) growing from a mixture of affection and contempt. The only way Scary Movie can get a reaction is going for gross: heads skewered by dildos, slashed-out breast implants, tiny dick gags, a torrential gush of sperm washing the heroine against the ceiling, relentless fag jokes (a DVD-ROM "Gaydar" feature even enumerates these) and a lot of old Cheech and Chong marijuana routines. About one in 10 of the jokes crack a grudging smile, with riffs on recognisable bits from The Matrix and The Usual Suspects, and a nicely nasty irrelevant aside that makes fun of both Titanic and Amistad. The best moment is a "scenes we've always wanted to see" scene in which an obnoxious cinemagoer is murdered by an entire audience for talking on her mobile phone during Shakespeare in Love. On the DVD: the DVD is letterboxed to 2.35:1 and has Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks in English and Italian, with subtitles in English and Italian. Extras are seven brief scenes cut out of the film (none very funny), a matey behind-the-scenes featurette, DVD-ROM features (a useful function plays the film with all the jokes and in-references explained in subtitles) and the theatrical trailer. --Kim Newman

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
i found it hillarious 27 Oct 2005
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Format:DVD
this film very much depends on your taste in humour, personally i love spoofs and found it highly amusing. its taking the mick out of "i know what you did last summer" and "scream," the script follows both films wich the producers join together. if you havent seen both these films first id strongly advice you to do so to appreciate the humour. i watched this film before i actually watched scream and considering most of the film is from scream i didnt fully appreciate the humour as much.all and all a very good comedy.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A laugh-a-minute!!! 14 Jun 2001
Format:VHS Tape
Scary movie is an excellent mickey take out of many of the scary movies out there - 'Scream' and 'I know what you did last summer' are just a couple of them. As funny as 'American pie' - even funnier maybe, this film is sure to make you laugh until you almost cry!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
'Scary Movie' is one of those films that you either love or hate and in turn your opinion of it depends on your taste in comedy. If you like dirty, gross humour then this film is perfect and you should get it. However if you are not so keen on this humour, then this is not the film for you.

The storyline is basically about a group of teenages who are still guilt-ridden from their car crash where they murdered a man and now, one year later, they are being chased by a crazed masked man with a hook, who seems content on killing them one by one.

If you have seen such films as Scream, I Know What you Did Last Summer, Blair Witch Project and The Sixth Sense then you have a head start in this film and you will understand the jokes much better, because Scary Movie has just taken bits from all of these film, and made them funny.

This film is an absolute treat for anyone who likes 'dirty' comedy because thats basically what most of the jokes are. If you are buying this under the impression that it is scary (i know the title is misleading) then i must just warn you that it is not scary, mainly because you spend half the time laughing and when somthing remotely scary happens, it just isn't believeable. Not that this is at all a bad thing because this film is about laughs. If we wanted to see a scary flick we would watch Scream or The Exorcist and if we wanted to watch somthing amazingly funny, we would watch this film.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Brilliant
Scary Movie is brilliant, just like the other 3 movies and i can't wait till the 5th film comes out this summer, but one thing i don't understand is why it's an 18, its not that... Read more
Published 4 months ago by JG
There's a reason theirs 4 of them!
Fantastic and hilarious.
The scary movie franchise has gone all the way from 2000 to the present day and its still as popular as ever. Read more
Published 16 months ago by dylan
Oh dear.
If you like your gags to be obvious, gross-out teen humour, then you may enjoy this. If you prefer jokes that are actually well constructed and witty then this will not do it for... Read more
Published 17 months ago by J. M. Davies
One of the most funniest Horror/comedys
One of the most funniest Horror/comedys i have seen, the films fakes the scream plot and characters forming cindy campbell and her funky friends who seem to be caught up in the... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Rebecca
Absolute trash!
A disgusting movie that plumbs the depths of sexual innuendo, dunno what makes them think this sort of filth is funny.
Published on 12 Jan 2010 by James Mcdougall
soooooooooooooo funny!
from the very start where the girl imitating drew barrymore in scream farted i was just dieing with laffter. i love it! Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2009 by mystery inc
Filthy but funny!
Although the crude and sexual humour in this movie is a bit too extreme in places, it is still a farely funny movie in places. Read more
Published on 18 July 2009 by dosn't matter who I am
Superb spoofing Scream
A group of teenagers are targeted by a serial killer exactly one year after they ran over a man.

In 1996 Scream was a film that reinstated the slasher horror genre and... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2008 by Stampy
the best of the 4 scary movies
This is the best of the 4 scary movies and it is laced throughout with good jokes and wacky characters and clever insights into the genuinely frightening films of recent... Read more
Published on 29 July 2008 by dan the fan
Frightfuly funny
Ok I think this one is the best out of the four. I have orderd it but it will not come because of the postal strike atm. Funny, Dirty and all the micky takes trown in. Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2007 by Tim Room
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